How many songs can be stored in an MP3 Player of 256MB?

Question

Can anyone tell me how many regular hindi movie songs can be stored in an MP3 Player of 256MB memory?
I want to know how many songs my mobile - Samsung X-630 can store with its memory of 256MB.

Answer 1

256MB can store about 60 songs in mp3 format.

Answer 2

It depends entirely on the quality of the encoding and the length of song. Most manufacturers use the 128 kbps mp3 standard when they say the amount of songs a mp3 player can store. This works out to about a 1MB/min and the average song is generally estimated at 4MB. This means about 64 songs at this encoding quality and length.

I would recommend a higher encoding quality as 128kbps is pretty poor quality by even the easiest standards. If you were to encode at 256kbps you can expect the number of songs you can store to drop in half to 32.

Answer 3

Assuming that an average song takes about 5 MB. This MP3 player will be able to store about 50 songs :)

Answer 4

Suppose you take an average of 2 MB per song, you will be able to hold roughly 128 songs on a player with 256 MB of storage.

The size of the songs can vary from a few KBs to even a few MBs. The quality of the recording and length of the songs are the most important factors contributing to the size of the files.

Answer 5

See MP3 has different bit rate ranging from 20kbps to some 300kbps.
Now as the bit-rate decreases the quality also decreases.
You can opt for 80kbps.
At this rate, the song is on an average will be 3-4 MB.
So 240/4 = 60 (approx).

Answer 6

A song averages 3-6MB each, depending on quality. Lower quality, lower size. Higher quality, bigger size. So minimum amount of songs at low quality would be roughly 64 songs. At good quality maybe about 40 songs. An approximate number to use as a measuring stick would be 1MB=1minute. So a 5 minute song would be roughly 5MB, etc

Answer 7

It depends on song length and quality. A better quality, long song will consume more memory than a short, low quality song.

Nevertheless, instead of thinking in terms of songs, I like to think in term of minutes. A good approximation is ~1 min of music/1 MB of memory.

Thus, in your case I assume you could store 256 minutes of music (~4 hours).

Answer 8

with an average of 4-5mb per song, not more than about 50. The size of 1 track really depends on the quality of the file & its bitrate. As the bitrate increases, so will the size of the file.

Answer 9

In MP3 Format, at 128kb/s bitrate, the conversion is almost 1 meg per minute, so about 256 megs, or 4 hours.

Answer 10

My mp3 average size is 7mb. So if you divide 256 by 7, that's about 36 songs.